TWO HIGH-PROFILE graduates from Dundee University will return to be presented with honorary degrees at this year’s graduation.

Journalist Alan Johnston and High Court judge Lord Turnbull will be honoured at the ceremonies for the College of Arts and Social Sciences on June 18 and June 19, respectively.

Alan Johnston graduated in 1985 with an MA hons in English and politics, and went on to become a journalist and documentary maker.

He was at the centre of an international campaign for his freedom after being kidnapped for almost four months while reporting in the Gaza Strip for the BBC in 2007.

Lord Turnbull gained a degree in law from the university in 1979, and went on to become Scotland’s youngest judge at the age of 47 after being appointed a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in February 2006.

He previously served as principal advocate depute, and worked on some of Scotland’s most high-profile criminal cases, including those of Luke Mitchell and Nat Fraser, and was also a prosecutor at the Lockerbie trial.

The two men will join designer Dame Vivienne Westwood and best-selling author William Boyd as recipients of honorary degrees from the university this year.